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GATE 2015 BT Question Paper with Answer Key PDFs (January 31- Forenoon Session)

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GATE 2015 BT Question Paper with Answer Key PDF is available for download. GATE 2015 BT paper was conducted by IIT Kanpur on January 31, 2015 in the forenoon session. 65 questions were asked in GATE 2015 BT question paper- 10 from General Aptitude and 55 from the core Biotechnology section. The overall difficulty level of GATE 2015 BT question paper was moderate to difficult.

GATE 2015 BT Question Paper with Answer Key PDFs (January 31- Forenoon Session)

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Answer Key Details

Question Number Answer Key Question Number Answer Key
1 B 34 2.5
2 A 35 D
3 C 36 0.25
4 C 37 B
5 A 38 C
6 A 39 A
7 B 40 1.1
8 3 41 B
9 C 42 D
10 B 43 B
11 D 44 0.065 to 0.078
12 C 45 D
13 C 46 2.8
14 D 47 A
15 B 48 1.20 to 1.30
16 C 49 B
17 D 50 B
18 A 51 C
19 7 52 A
20 C 53 3.80 to 3.82
21 D 54 10
22 -60 55 31.0 to 31.3
23 C 56 1.6 to 1.7
24 A 57 2
25 C 58 C
26 C 59 D
27 B 60 -48 to -46
28 C 61 B
29 C 62 D
30 B 63 1.20 to 1.22
31 A 64 B
32 B 65 A
33 1.40 to 1.43

GATE 2015 BT Paper Analysis

The detailed analysis of GATE 2015 BT paper is mentioned below.

  • In GATE 2015 BT paper, there were questions from two sections, i.e. General Aptitude and Biotechnology.
  • There was a negative marking of 1/3rd for 1-mark questions and 2/3rd for 2-mark questions in the paper.
  • The topics and weightage of marks GATE 2015 AR paper are given below.
Name of the Topics Number of 1 mark question Number of 2 mark question
Engineering Mathematics 6 4
Microbiology 2 0
Biochemistry 2 5
Molecular Biology 2 1
Genetics 0 5
Process Biotechnology 4 0
Bioprocess Engineering 3 1
Plant Biotechnology 1 4
Animal Biotechnology 1 0
Characteristics of Animal cells 1 1
Immunology 1 3
RDNA Technology 1 3
Bioinformatics 1 3
Verbal Ability 3 2
Numerical Ability 2 3

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